A research team from The University of Osaka has made a significant breakthrough in cancer radiotherapy by identifying ...

Higher-than-usual doses of radiation in the treatment of inoperable lung cancer can be safely combined with immunotherapy ...

Radiation sterilization technology destroys the DNA and cellular structures of bacteria and microorganisms using ...

Effective dose takes the type of radiation and the biological sensitivity ... and came up with the first film badge dosimeter in 1942. His device was simple: a lightproof envelope containing ...

How many radiation badges should be worn and how and where should they be worn? Best practice would demand two badges, one below the lead apron at chest level to estimate the effective dose and ...

should wear a dose-monitoring badge or other device for the purposes of monitoring their individual exposure. In some cases it may be more suitable to monitor the workplace. The occupational radiation ...

Ultra-low-dose CT reduces radiation exposure but can result in poor image quality due to added "noise," which manifests as a ...

In patients with inoperable locally advanced esophageal cancer who received definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy, a higher radiation dose (≥ 59.4 Gy) did not improve survival compared with ...

reducing radiation dose for CT scans; and educating clinicians about avoiding low-value testing. This isn't the first time the issue of CT scans and cancer has been raised. A 2015 investigation ...

which added that “the amount of radiation dose used in a CT scan is small.” Getty Per the JAMA Internal Medicine study's findings, "In this risk model, the 93 million CT examinations performed ...

The Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it has developed a more accurate method to estimate radiation exposure doses among people who spend time around the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.